On Thursday 14 Jul 2005 13:27, James Vahn wrote: > Just for the record, frame rates are excellent with my new FX5200 but > the computer locks up far too frequently when using the "nvidia" driver. > Seems to be fine with the "nv" driver. Open source drivers are almost always better than their closed source counterparts IME, especially where full specs for the hardware are available. However, in this case the nv driver will not provide you with hardware-accelerated OpenGL unless I've missed something significant in the past few months. NVidia continue to refuse to release full hardware specs and so we're unfortunately stuck with their binary drivers if we need 3D out of the card.
> This is the driver package I downloaded from Nvidia: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run > Which one are you running? From what I've seen here, the latest series of drivers have been more troublesome than their previous attempts (which I've not had many problems with). I've stuck with 1.0-6629 which has been fine for me. It's what's "stable" on Gentoo still, probably for good reason. Graphics card drivers seem to be a source of problems on just about every OS IME. > Btw, you asked and I forgot to answer- I'm using 1024x768 at 16 bits. You could probably use 24 bits OK with your new card - I would try it, FG looks a little bit nicer than at 16 bits. Pleased to hear you're getting decent frame rates now, although the lock-ups are slightly worrying. If dropping back to the 6229 driver doesn't cure them, I think I'd be looking out for hardware issues... (is your PSU up to the task?) Let us know how you get on. Cheers, AJ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
